The Talent Unleashed Awards has, since their inaugural event last year (only for Australia and New Zealand), expanded to Central, East Asia and South East Asia for 2014.
60 will battle it out for a coveted spot in the top 9 where winners will get to spend five days at Richard Branson’s Entrepreneurship Centre in South Africa for schooling on entrepreneurship and business innovation.
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Hong Kong startup AfterShip has just closed a Series A round of $1 million from IDG Capital Partners (“IDG-Accel”) who has also invested in Mainland Chinese giants Baidu and Tencent.
Providing a platform that improves the package tracking functionality for online retailers, AfterShip has gained serious traction since securing seed funding two summers ago and launching publicly in July 2013. Besides having their tracking APIs and ‘Track Button’ widget integrated with over 180 carriers all around the world, AfterShip has also signed on 15,000 active users including Groupon and Etsy.
Besides its robust customer base and being one of the top apps and extensions on Shopify and eBay, AfterShip is currently tracking 3 million monthly shipments and has reported 25% growth every month.
This morning, the startup community woke up to the monster of all exits – Google has acquired Hong Kong/NYC startup Divide for an undisclosed sum.
Confirming the merger on their blog yesterday morning, Divide said that they will be joining forces with the Android team but promises their existing customers that “Divide will work as it always has.”
According to Recode, the Divide purchase is part of Google’s plan to gain more acceptance in the workplace as Android’s open source nature makes it more susceptible to malware attacks. With the help of Divide’s “container approach” in separating corporate and personal information on devices, ‘BYOD’ mobility for Android might be getting a lot more enterprise-friendly.
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